ESL revise Major slot distribution, finalize Road to Rio team list

ESL has revealed the remainder of participating teams in most regions of ESL One: Road to Rio and announced that one Challenger slot at the ESL One Rio Major has been moved from North America to Europe.

The slot distribution was adjusted after c0ntact — formerly one of Rio's New Challengers after having placed in the top 14 at the StarLadder Major — changed regions from North America to Europe, where they became the last unannounced participating team in ESL One: Road to Rio.

As a result, the prizepool of the first Regional Major Ranking series has also changed slightly, with Europe's now totaling $115,000 after gaining $10,000 from North America, where $60,000 is now on offer.

The organizers mainly determined the rest of the teams based on their placing in the Minor closed qualifiers. Due to multiple teams finishing in the same spot in CIS and Asia, ESL will hold tiebreaker matches to determine the last two participants in each of the two regions.

You can find the list of participants, full dates, and the prizepool of each region below:

there won't be any minors from now on if I remember correctly. also don't forget that there will be several rmr events before RIo, so OG might still qualify if they will qualify for the other rmr events.

OMG are you stupid?
Normally two major would be played this year. For now, this was done in order not to defeat the right of the teams that came out of the Minor elimination. In the 2nd rmr tournament there will be teams like OG BIG